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Curiosities
by Hesperus Labs
A story-driven explainer about whatever I'm currently curious about — the history of an object, how a market works, a corner of physics, a question about probability, a cultural phenomenon.Each episode takes one thing apart and shows you the mechanism underneath: what makes the problem hard, who actually solved it, what it cost, and the part that still doesn't quite fit. No lecture, no listicle, no fake enthusiasm.Episode one: a genuinely hard load-bearing problem, two handkerchiefs, and a sizing system that was never a measurement of anything.
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The Price of Right Now
On the sixth of May, twenty-ten, a share of Accenture sold for one cent. Not because anything was wrong with Accenture — because for a few minutes, nobody was standing on the other side. This is about the people whose entire job is to stand there, what they charge for it, and why the price of…
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A, B, C, D: Why This Bra Doesn't Fit Me
In 1913 a nineteen-year-old sewed two handkerchiefs to a length of pink ribbon, patented it, and sold the patent for fifteen hundred dollars. A century later, studies find that most people are wearing the wrong size. This is the story of a genuinely hard load-bearing problem, and of the four...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A story-driven explainer about whatever I'm currently curious about — the history of an object, how a market works, a corner of physics, a question about probability, a cultural phenomenon.Each episode takes one thing apart and shows you the mechanism underneath: what makes the problem hard, who actually solved it, what it cost, and the part that still doesn't quite fit. No lecture, no listicle, no fake enthusiasm.Episode one: a genuinely hard load-bearing problem, two handkerchiefs, and a sizing system that was never a measurement of anything.
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Hesperus Labs
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A story-driven explainer about whatever I'm currently curious about — the history of an object, how a market works, a corner of physics, a question about probability, a cultural phenomenon.Each episode takes one thing apart and shows you the mechanism underneath: what makes the problem hard, who...
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